#ThisMapCan

17th November 2016 | London

Help Comic Relief on their mission...

We aim to solve the world’s biggest problems using geography. Putting our heads together, we believe that creative maps can make all the difference. This one day event is designed to infuse geography with creative minds. The aim is to produce stunning content to help Comic Relief on their mission to be a just world, free from poverty.

Choose Challenge

Design Content

Create Map

Pitch Content

The Details

So how will it work? Comic relief has a couple content challenges that you could help solve. When you register to attend you can choose which challenge you would most like to work on. We will do our best to put you in a group to work on your selected challenge. As well as solving a real life challenge you will have the chance to work with different people from the UK’s top creative agencies, make new connections and learn new skills…and all for a great cause.

We will send you videos a couple of weeks in advance of the actual event to show you how to use the mapping technology, giving you time to think ahead and prepare for the day.

The Challenge

These challenges have been set by comic relief and have been categorised into two areas:

Drive Donations

Encourage fundraisers to share selfies and stories about their fundraising efforts in an engaging way, encouraging others to take part. Create a social buzz, a desire to join in on the action and map the funny!

Whether it’s a bake sale at work, a fancy dress day at school, or a danceathon in the local community, Red Nose Day supporters get up to all sorts to raise vital funds for Comic Relief.
Fundraisers want to share the news of what they are doing for Red Nose Day. This map would enable supporters to upload content about what they’re doing, to publicise their events and to inspire others to get involved and start their own activity. Supporters would be able to upload film, photographs and details of their event onto the map, and produce a crowdsourced heat map of activity as the nation comes together to make their laugh matter and raise money for Comic Relief.

Drive Engagement

How would you make the existing map on comicrelief.com more engaging? Challengers will be tasked to develop/reinvigorate the existing map on CR.com to show the difference made through the thousands of projects Comic Relief funds worldwide.

How would you showcase the amazing projects that Comic Relief funds worldwide in an engaging way?
Challengers will be tasked to develop a map for Comicrelief.com which is interactive, captivating, informative and easy to navigate. It should also be easy for us to update. The map will bring to life the lists of grants you can find here: http://www.comicrelief.com/what-we-do
so that the general public will be able to see where their money goes, potential partners and applicants will understand more about the type of work we support. Overall we are looking for a map that will help capture the attention and inspire external audiences.

The Technology

Learn how to use ground breaking mapping technology to create interactive content. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn new skills for content creation. There will be plenty of support for using the technology so you do not need to be a tech head, however we do need you to bring along your creative ideas to turn maps into compelling content.